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SCC | May 18, 2016

SCC has launched its unique new Universal Cloud Gateway (UCG) platform, in partnership with Jamcracker, enabling its customers to “monetise the cloud quickly and efficiently, and deliver a cohesive IT solution”.The UCG web portal offers a storefront-based unified cloud gateway to public and private cloud services – and represents the completion of another substantial investment in SCC’s Cloud Delivered Managed Services (CDMS) proposition.UCG enables procurement of connect...

SCC | June 02, 2016

UK public sector organisations are being encouraged to look to the cloud for new services. The publicly-stated approach set out in the Digital Marketplace Strategy is ‘Cloud First’. There is a growing confidence in the cloud and suppliers on the G-Cloud list are now seeing much higher levels of interest.However, the level of engagement varies considerably. While it is very mature in some areas, such as central government it is not as strong in some other areas; local government, heal...

sdxcentral.com | January 23, 2020

Arista Networks bought SDN vendor Big Switch Networks, according to sources familiar with the deal.The purchase is Arista’s largest acquisition to date, according to a source. It’s also the networking vendor’s third acquisition Arista in 2018 snapped up cloud-managed WiFi firm Mojo Networks and then a month later bought Metamako, a provider of low-latency field programmable gate array (FPGA) products.While Arista ultimately won, Big Switch had a long list of suitors that wanted...

bloomberg.com | January 21, 2020

Google signed a 10-year deal with travel-software provider Sabre Corp., a key win for the search giant in the competitive cloud-computing market.Sabre will pay Google to handle parts of its information-technology system and for data-analytics tools. Additionally, the companies agreed to collaborate on online travel services, a sign of Google leaning on its massive consumer business to lure enterprise clients.Sabre and Alphabet Inc.’s Google announced the partnership on Tuesday as a “...