Coalfire has launched HIPAAcentral, a new compliance exchange that provides a comprehensive suite of services for covered entities and business associates and their subcontractors to manage, maintain and exchange healthcare regulatory compliance data.
“The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is now actively monitoring and enforcing the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, and too many healthcare firms aren’t prepared,” said Rick Dakin, CEO and co-founder of Coalfire. “HIPAAcentral is closing that gap by enabling subscribers to securely exchange and verify compliance status.”

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Telx®, a leading provider of global interconnectivity, cloud enablement services and datacenter solutions, today announced that Hector Hernandez has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Operations and Service Delivery. Hernandez brings more than 30 years of broad experience in datacenters, networks operations as well as the business of colocation from his tenures at Terremark, Bellsouth and EDS. As part of his responsibilities, Hernandez will lead the day to day operations of all Telx’s 20 data centers.

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IBM has today announced a $1.2bn (£735m) commitment to “expand its global footprint”, building data centres to cover all geographies and financial centres.

“Today’s announcement is another major step in driving a global expansion of IBM’s cloud footprint and helping clients drive transformation,” thundered Erich Clementi, IBM global technology services SVP in a statement.

IBM plans to open 15 data centres in the coming year, to add to its 12 already deployed and the baker’s dozen it picked up following the $2bn acquisition of SoftLayer last year. Armonk claims the acquisition has helped pick up 2400 clients.

The new data centres will be launched in China – joining a long list of firms with the same idea – Hong Kong, India and Japan, alongside Dallas, London, Mexico City and Washington DC.

You’ve got to spend money to make money, as the old saying goes, and IBM certainly …

CiRBA has announced the availability of CiRBA Version 8. With this release, CiRBA adds support for Microsoft® Hyper-V® to its award-winning Control Console, which enables organizations to maximize efficiency and minimize risk in virtual and cloud infrastructure. This new capability is a key addition to CiRBA’s already strong platform support, which includes VMware® ESX®, IBM® PowerVM®, and Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization.

Also now shipping in Version 8 is CiRBA’s new Reservation Console, announced last fall, which automates the entire process of selecting the optimal hosting environment for new workloads and reserving compute and storage capacity. The Reservation Console combines with CiRBA’s cross-platform support to enable CiRBA customers to automate “fit for purpose” placements for new workloads across multi-hypervisor, multi-SLA, multi-site virtual and cloud environments.

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Telx®, a leading provider of global interconnectivity, cloud enablement services and datacenter solutions, today announced that Hector Hernandez has joined the company as Senior Vice President of Operations and Service Delivery. Hernandez brings more than 30 years of broad experience in datacenters, networks operations as well as the business of colocation from his tenures at Terremark, Bellsouth and EDS. As part of his responsibilities, Hernandez will lead the day to day operations of all Telx’s 20 data centers.

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The era of Big Data is upon us. Data is growing in volume, variety and velocity. At the same time, cybercrimes, breaches and advanced persistent threats are increasing at an alarming rate. As a result, the pressure is on to protect critical data and demonstrate compliance to a growing body of regulation. Security Intelligence transforms the playing field and shifts the balance in favor of the good guys. In this webcast, learn how to blend Big Data technologies that address speed and flexibility and are ideal for ad-hoc data exploration, discovery analysis of unstructured data in motion with traditional structured data suitable for repeatable tasks, to build a security intelligence platform across your enterprise. Leveraging Big Data analytics to uncover hidden threats within massive amounts of data in motion provides actionable insights to detect unknown threats and prioritize actions.

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AppZero, the fastest, most flexible way to move server applications, announced today AppZero v5.5 that introduces the Tether Console and IIS modernization. The software is now available and further eases one-step migrations for complex Windows server applications from older operating systems such as Window Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012, and from the data center to the cloud.
AppZero Tether Console is a simple interface that guides users through the AppZero process of migrating applications from source server to destination. AppZero migration automates the extraction and movement of server-side applications to any cloud or machine in a fraction of the time required by other approaches, and with no change to the application. AppZero is the only cloud-independent application extraction and cloud delivery automation tool on the market.

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HCL Technologies and CSC have formed a strategic partnership to address the substantial market opportunity created by the need for enterprise clients to modernize their applications and transition to the cloud.
HCL and CSC will create a world-class application modernization delivery network to enable enterprises to shift from legacy technologies to a cloud-enabled platform. The first delivery centers will be launched in Bangalore and Chennai. These delivery centers will lower the risks and costs for clients transitioning to the cloud.
The joint application modernization offering will be enhanced with vertical specific initiatives starting with banking and financial services through the creation of a banking center of excellence. The partnership will be standardizing the delivery of modernized applications and enable them to be brokered onto any cloud environment, using platforms such as CSC’s ServiceMesh.

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SoftLayer, an IBM Company, on Wednesday announced that game development studio KUULUU and online game servers provider Multiplay are using IBM SoftLayer’s cloud capabilities to power popular games such as Battlefield 4 and RECHARGE. KUULUU tapped into SoftLayer’s cloud for higher performance and scale for their newest game created with Linkin Park, the most popular band on Facebook with 55 million followers, called RECHARGE, while Multiplay utilizes SoftLayer cloud to support the mega title Battlefield 4.
The global gaming market is estimated to total $111 billion by 2015 – driven largely by the increasing popularity of cloud gaming (online, streamed and downloaded games are estimated to represent as much as $38B in revenue in 2012). By leveraging the cloud built on open standards to host and stream games, developers are able to provide users with uninterrupted, instant access to games across any devices that will provide higher performance and easily scale based. This allows games to be streamed directly from the cloud, rather than downloaded locally, freeing up storage space on user devices and making access to updates easier and more efficient.

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Cloud storage provider Box is offering 50GB’s worth of free storage for users who sign up to its service in the next month – twisting the knife further into rival Dropbox, whose service went down over the weekend.

Dropbox hit the skids after what VP of engineering Aditya Agarwal described as a routine server upgrade, with a bug installed on active servers bringing down the show.

While Dropbox was at pains to insist that everyone’s files were safe, it’s fair to say the news will have affected the company’s reputation. And in a not coincidental move announced yesterday, Box is opening up 50GB of storage for new customers, as well as rolling out a new iPhone and iPad app.

“We’ve overhauled our app to make it super-fast, simpler to use and more immersive,” wrote David Still, Box VP mobile products in a blog post.

“The result …