Talkin' Cloud

What's been happening with online backup and disaster recovery solution provider Zetta.net since it released a management console and a new marketing program for MSPs back in April? The company recently talked with Talkin' Cloud on the company's general availability of Zetta.net DataProtect 4.0—its cloud backup and disaster recovery solution for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), remote/branch offices and managed service providers (MSPs)—as well as the company's Series B funding of $8 million for continued expansion and growth....More

Cloud-based identity and access management platform provider Okta is ready to take its cloud services to the market through the channel. The company has launched two channel partner programs that will be the foundation for its channel ecosystem....More

Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) that use cloud computing say they've seen increased levels of privacy, security and reliability, according to a new survey commissioned by Microsoft (MSFT), one of the companies identified as participating in the government survelliance NSA PRISM program....More

Managed services and infrastructure solutions provider Datapipe has recently partnered with Verne Global to offer customers its Stratosphere high performance computing (HPC) cloud platform delivered from Verne Global’s data center campus in Iceland....More

CenturyLink is looking to get into the PaaS game. The company has completed the acquisition of AppFog, which provides a PaaS specificially tailored to software developers. CenturyLink will add the new PaaS offering to its Savvis Cloud product catalog, which already includes the Savvis IaaS offering....More