May 1, 2012 — Web hosting company Immedion announced on Tuesday it has named Brad Tompkins the company’s general manager of its Asheville, North Carolina data center, a role in which he will be responsible for the management of the Asheville facility.

May 1, 2012 — Telecommunications provider Cincinnati Bell announced on Monday it has expanded its IT services for businesses with the addition of cloud-based Microsoft Communication and Collaboration Solutions powered by hosted business services provider Apptix and cloud service delivery software provider Parallels.

April 30, 2012 — Japanese telecommunications provider NTT Communications announced on Monday it has officially opened its Singapore Serangoon Data Center and Malaysia Cyberjaya 3 Data Center.

April 30, 2012 — Cloud hosting company Infinitely Virtual announced on Monday it has added VMware’s vCloud Director to its hosting platform, giving IT managers more “self-service” options when needing to reconfigure networking resources, move data between different clouds, or change virtual applications.

April 23, 2012 — At the Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Microsoft officially launched the new version of its management platform Windows System Center 2012.

April 20, 2012 — Virtualization and cloud computing software developer VMware announced on Friday it has appointed Jon T Robertson as the new general manager for its Southeast Asia operations.

April 20, 2012 — The UK government expects cloud computing giants Amazon and Salesforce to join its G-Cloud framework when the new version is launched some time this May, according to a report by the Register on Friday.

April 20, 2012 — Application platform provider GigaSpaces Technologies announced on Friday it has integrated its open PaaS stack Cloudify with both the HP Cloud Services and Rackspace Clouds.

April 13, 2012 — The Cabinet Office confirmed on Friday that G-Cloud director Chris Chant will retire at the end of April, two days after he wrote a blog post criticizing goverment IT departments for being unwilling to change how they purchase services.

April 13, 2012 — Cloud management provider RightScale announced on Tuesday that it will offer HP Cloud as one of the public cloud choices available for management with RightScale.