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IBM’s acquisition of Cast Iron Systems: stepladder to the Cloud

Today IBM announced it’s just completed the acquisition of Cast Iron Systems – a 75-person US-based specialist provider of integration technology for Cloud platforms and SaaS applications. The company started in 2001 focused on providing integration technology for business-to-business deployments of web services; latterly it’s taken its core technology and tweaked its proposition to focus [...]

Posted on Monday, May 3, 2010 by

vmforce – the Cloud thickens

Last week VMware and salesforce.com announced a partnership to deliver a joint Cloud computing service, vmforce. Any enterprise IT architect or strategist with a serious interest in Cloud computing should take time to dig into it. Why is vmforce significant? Well, the obvious reason is that the partnership represents an alignment of two of the [...]

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