Independent Bank Builds Private Cloud Foundation with EMC and VMware

EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that Independent Bank Corporation, a Michigan-based bank holding company with $2.9 billion in assets, deployed EMC and VMware solutions to virtualize, consolidate and streamline its storage and server environments for increased efficiency and flexibility, and to better protect its key data assets.

First OpenStack Release Produces Open Source Cloud Alternative

OpenStack, an open source cloud computing platform with broad developer and commercial support, today announced the “Austin” code release of OpenStack Compute and Object Storage. Since the project’s inception three months ago, OpenStack has built an active community of contributors, delivered on its code release and feature commitments, attracted new member organizations and received significant interest from enterprises and service providers.

Agriculture Company Cultivates Cloud Strategy with BMC Software and Cisco UCS

Just as retailers mark the holidays to clear their store shelves, agriculture companies look to the planting season to support sales and growth. Monsanto Company is also relying on BMC Software (NASDAQ:BMC – News) Business Service Management (BSM) to keep its IT running during critical seed selling seasons while enabling a large-scale virtualization effort and migration to cloud computing.

SAP Brings Customers More Choices to Benefit From Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructures

SAP Details Product Plans for Managing Virtualized and Cloud Infrastructures, Outlines Strategy for Collaboration With Customers and Partners; New Reference Architectures for Solutions from Dell and IBM Plus Continued Collaboration With Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) Means More Choices for Customers to Increase Agility and Reduce Total Cost of Ownership in Private Clouds