Systems integrator Dimension Data plans to enhance its cloud computing offerings by acquiring OpSource, a Santa Clara, California, provider of hosted cloud services.
Dimension Data, an NTT Group subsidiary based in Johannesburg, South Africa, traditionally has focused on offering communication services, such as building and managing networks, delivering unified communications services and offering security services. But with an increasing number of customers asking for help with building private clouds and using public clouds, the company has been boosting its cloud expertise, said Brett Dawson, CEO of Dimension Data. PCWORLD

Red Hat recently announced “Cloud Foundations: edition one”, a complete package of tools required to build, run,manage,use or in short work with a private cloud. With that red-hat joined the growing number of vendors who have added  cloud-computing management software to their product lines.
With Cloud Foundations, customers can avail the benefits of the cloud today, with lower risk and simple, easy implementation. It is available immediately and is designed to expand the reach of the cloud, to enable people to use a real private cloud easily.
The package includes a comprehensive …