September 2, 2011 — Web hosting provider Contegix announced on Wednesday it is hiring 15 new employees to support the company’s growing managed cloud services. The company said it will hire 15 permanent full-time employees in all sectors of its business to meet the demands of its growing cloud computing unit.

September 2, 2011 — Non-profit organization New Zealand Computer Society announced on Thursday its plans for the development of a Cloud Computing Code of Practice to inform the public about cloud computing issues. This announcement comes a day after New Zealand web hosting provider FlexiHost launched a NZ domain lookup and registration mobile app.

August 17, 2011 — Cloud cost management solution provider Cloud Cruiser announced on Wednesday that it has kicked off general availability for its Cloud Cruiser cost management solution for OpenStack, offering users management and accounting tools for optimizing costs in cloud computing environments.

July 14, 2011 — IT giant IBM announced on Thursday it has expanded its cloud computing services for customers in Japan and in the Asia Pacific region with the opening of a new IBM Cloud Data Center in Japan and a dedicated data center for LotusLive, IBM’s cloud collaboration service. The new data centers will extend IBM’s cloud delivery network of cloud computing centers.

July 14, 2011 — EMC Corporation announced on Thursday that it has launched its new EMC ProSphere Storage Resource Management solution, designed to meet the needs of cloud computing and virtualized environments. According to the press release, ProSphere delivers an end-to-end view of storage assets no matter the location, allowing single-pane management.

July 6, 2011 — Data center operator Horizon Data Center Solutions announced on Tuesday that it has received the “Authority to Operate” as a cloud computing provider to the federal government. The government has made a commitment to move its services to the cloud as part of its Cloud First policy. This announcement comes almost a month after the US government’s first chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, resigned.

June 27, 2011 — Confirming previous rumors, Verizon cancelled plans last week to build a massive data center near Laramie, Wyoming, as part of its strategy to scale up its infrastructure to enter the cloud computing market, according to a report by the Laramie Boomerang.